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Bus Board is an application application that shows bus arrival information created by Orologics. The application runs on the 4th generation Apple TV running tvOS.
 
Bus Board is an application application that shows bus arrival information created by Orologics. The application runs on the 4th generation Apple TV running tvOS.
  
As of November 23, 2015, the Bus Board covers San Francisco, NYC, Boston, Seattle, DC, Vancouver BC, Southern California, Portland, Georgia, Quebec, Florida, N. Carolina, Virginia, and other regions, according to the developer of the software.<ref>http://orologics.com/page30/page30.html</ref> OneBusAway is used as a source of real-time information for some regions.<ref>October 26, 2015 post from Mike Pompa on the onebusaway-developers Google Group [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/onebusaway-developers/0TUMo6ECYnI/lJbey9ZgBwAJ]</ref> As ofNovember 23, 2015 it is unkown to TransitWiki authors how real-time information is incorporated for regions that have not implemented OneBusAway.
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As of November 23, 2015, the Bus Board covers San Francisco, NYC, Boston, Seattle, DC, Vancouver BC, Southern California, Portland, Georgia, Quebec, Florida, N. Carolina, Virginia, and other regions, according to the developer of the software.<ref>http://orologics.com/page30/page30.html</ref> OneBusAway is used as a source of real-time information for some regions.<ref>October 26, 2015 post from Mike Pompa on the onebusaway-developers Google Group [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/onebusaway-developers/0TUMo6ECYnI/lJbey9ZgBwAJ]</ref> Real-time information is gathered from 10 different public APIs, including OneBusAway, NextBus, 511.org and home-brewed transit agency APIs. The data is then put into a normalized form that the presentation layer can display to the user.
  
 
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[[Category:OneBusAway API client]]
 
[[Category:OneBusAway API client]]

Revision as of 07:30, 24 November 2015

Bus Board is an application application that shows bus arrival information created by Orologics. The application runs on the 4th generation Apple TV running tvOS.

As of November 23, 2015, the Bus Board covers San Francisco, NYC, Boston, Seattle, DC, Vancouver BC, Southern California, Portland, Georgia, Quebec, Florida, N. Carolina, Virginia, and other regions, according to the developer of the software.[1] OneBusAway is used as a source of real-time information for some regions.[2] Real-time information is gathered from 10 different public APIs, including OneBusAway, NextBus, 511.org and home-brewed transit agency APIs. The data is then put into a normalized form that the presentation layer can display to the user.

  1. http://orologics.com/page30/page30.html
  2. October 26, 2015 post from Mike Pompa on the onebusaway-developers Google Group [1]